It’s 10 p.m. on a Wednesday night and New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is sitting behind his desk in his rather drab office, featuring a computer in front of him and a steno pad full of notes on the desk. Even after three Super Bowl titles, a fourth championship appearance and two titles as a defensive coordinator in 34 years in the NFL, Belichick, 57, doesn’t think about other challenges outside of football. However, he recently gave up more than an hour of his time to talk about a variety of subjects regarding the Patriots and the NFL, in general. On the subject of trading players on the Patriots current roster: "Each guy’s price is different. If a team asks, you see what the price is. Now, is Jerod Mayo(notes) available? No, not really. But there are certain players who are young that have a certain number of years left on their contract that you want on your team, so you’re really not going to trade them. Those guys are realistically not available, no. But is everybody else available for a certain price on every team? I would say, for the most part, they probably are. Who’s willing to give that? What you want and what someone else is willing to give, that’s usually very different. In this case (the Seymour trade – in return, the Patriots get Oakland’s first-round pick in the 2011 draft), it worked."
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